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“You're afraid, aren't you? You’re afraid she’ll appear to one of them and tell them the truth about you.” “She wouldn’t do that.” “Wouldn’t she?”

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Just a couple of conmen who should have stayed far, far away from Collinsport and vampires. Based on the Norman Rockwell paintings ‘Boys Smoking’ and ‘Retribution’:

“A good heart and a clear conscience are the only jewels worth having.” 

“Yeah, uh, but what if you don’t have them? The good heart an’ all that?” 

“Then you’d do well to get them.”

A redemption story.

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“...I’m sorry.”

“Oh sure, you’re ‘Sorry’. That’s a new word you learned only recently. I’d like to know where you learned to say it.”

Dark Shadows was really clever to juxtapose metaphorical and literal vampire arcs, and it set Willie up for one of the most devastating redemption arcs I’ve ever seen. 

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“Jason, you're my friend. Help me.”

“Listen to me Jason, we're still friends--” “WERE friends, Willie! Past tense!”

“Are you squeamish about death?” “He was my friend!” “Your friend? You told me he tried to kill you.” “But a long time ago before we came here, we were friends. Good friends.” “You really are appallingly sentimental.”

In ep 264 Barnabas and Willie believe Maggie to be dead, and only the vampire’s literal slave holds himself accountable. Go figure.

Behold: Cass, Jason, and a reference to a quote from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

(Explanation: Cass’s book references the quote “I incline to Cain’s heresy. I let my brother go to the devil in his own way,” but since she’s the personification of “that sign won’t stop me because I can’t read!” I don’t think the book made much of an impression.)